Kevin West

In a huge upset, extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen qualified on Sunday to face incumbent Jacques Chirac in the runoff for French president.

Georgia officials are fighting to sink a plan to build a proposed $500 million container port in poor, rural Jasper County, S.C., that would compete with a major port in Savannah.

Leaders from Georgia and South Carolina will meet this week to discuss forming a panel that would oversee how water from the Savannah River is used by each of the states.

Police now say they aren't sure of the identity of the young woman accused of shooting a sheriff's deputy and escaping from custody.

Sam Catron was 4 years old when three thugs armed with a shotgun pulled up in front of his family's home and shot his father, the city's police chief.

Patrick Harden was in a hot, jam-packed black church in Montgomery in 1961 as a white mob grew in numbers outside, angry over the arrival of Freedom Riders.

Five people on a Delta Air Lines flight were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after the plane ran into turbulence Saturday while passing through a thunderstorm on its way from Los Angeles to Cincinnati.

A record 55,000 people turned out for the annual Black College Spring Break National Job Fair - an event once known as a sideshow to the now defunct Freaknik.

A couple were charged with first-degree murder in the death of their 6-year-old daughter whose head was crushed from a blow to the back of the skull.

A record 55,000 people turned out for the annual Black College Spring Break National Job Fair - an event once known as a sideshow to the now defunct Freaknik.